"Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England. In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate,"
"artists and musicians for centuries. Many of these artists lived at Loughton. Loughton is also home to the East 15 Acting School and its Corbett Theatre. Sculptor Jacob Epstein lived on the very edge of the forest for a quarter of a century at Baldwins Hill, Loughton. Epstein in his Autobiography (1955) says that he wanted his sculpture ""Visitation"", now in the Tate Collection, to be sited overlooking the forest. In 1933, he exhibited 100 paintings of the forest, and continued to paint during the war. His gouache, an essay in green tints and textures, ""Pool – Epping Forest"", of"
"which meets at Lopping Hall, encourages the town's younger talent. Harlow Ballet, which stages full-scale amateur ballet productions at Harlow Playhouse, also recruits in the area. The proximity of Epping Forest has made Loughton a magnet for artists for many years. The sculptor and painter Sir Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) lived at 'Deerhurst' between 1933 and 1950, after having rented no. 49 Baldwins Hill; he produced some of his best known works there. Sculptor Elsa Fraenkel lived at Elm Lodge, Church Lane, after World War II. Artist John Strevens (1902–1990) lived at 8 Lower Park Road from 1963 until his death."
"1992, then moved to Brooklyn, New York and has since appeared on more than 50 recordings and toured in 20-plus countries with artists including Ralph Alessi, Michael Cain, Scott Colley, James Carney, Jerry Granelli, Carola Grey, Paolo Jaoa, Pete McCann, Bobby Previte, Brad Shepik. and Marcelo Zarvos. Epstein is a founding member of the School for Improvisational Music in New York City and has taught numerous workshops at universities, conservatories, and music festivals around the United States (Eastman School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, New England Conservatory of Music) and the world (Nepal, India, Slovenia, Poland, Sweden, Germany,"
"European artists, such as Delacroix's charcoal sketch of a ""New Born Lamb"". It also includes a selection of sculpture, vessels and votive objects from cultures in Africa, Asia and South America. There are a significant number of works by Jacob Epstein within the collection. The collection contains the largest single holding of works by Jacob Epstein anywhere. Many of these works are bronze portrait busts, a mix of family members and commissioned portraits. There are also studies for key works, such as ""Study for Rock Drill"". It is unclear at exactly what point Kathleen Garman and Sally Ryan conceived of"
"from her grandfather Thomas Fortune Ryan, a successful American tobacco and transport magnate. A number of Sally Ryan's own works also form part of the Garman Ryan collection. Kathleen Garman also ran her own commercial art gallery, 'The Little Gallery', operating in Kensington, London in the mid-1960s, as a consequence she was buying and selling art on a regular basis. It has been suggested that a number of works from the Garman Ryan collection were originally 'Little Gallery' stock. A number of artists represented with the collection also had personal connections with Kathleen Garman and Sally Ryan. Jacob Epstein was"
"John Eckstein Johann or John Eckstein (1735-1817), was a German-born sculptor, engraver and painter who worked briefly in London before establishing himself in his homeland and then in America. He is not to be confused with his son, also known as John, a painter who worked in England and the West Indies. He was born at Poppenreuth near Nuremberg on 25 November 1735, the son of Conrad Eckstein, a woodcarver and cabinet-maker, and was the elder brother of George Paul Eckstein. He studied under Preissler, at the Academy of Arts at Nuremberg before moving to England. Something is known of"
"World War II. Jennifer Cody Epstein Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of the novels ""The Painter from Shanghai"", ""The Gods of Heavenly Punishment"", and ""Wunderland"". Epstein resides in New York City with her husband and daughters. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree, a Masters in International relations and a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and English. She has written for NBC, HBO and ""The Wall Street Journal"", ""The Asian Wall Street Journal"", ""The Nation"" (Thailand), ""Self"", and ""Mademoiselle ""magazines. Epstein has also worked in Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan, where she lived for five years as a"
"not rely on museum curators or other members of the cultural establishment – in 1908 he wrote ""The main difficulty so far seems to have been that Indian art has been studied so far only by archaeologists. It is not archaeologists, but artists … who are the best qualified to judge of the significance of works of art considered as art."" By 1909, he was firmly acquainted with Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill, the city's two most important early Modernists, and soon both of them had begun to incorporate Indian aesthetics into their work. The curiously hybrid sculptures that were"
"in Leeds City Art Gallery. In 1968 Leeds School of Art was renamed Jacob Kramer College (it changed the name in 1993 to Leeds College of Art and Design). His friend Jacob Epstein made a bust of him, copies of which can be found in the Tate in London and at Leeds City Art Gallery. The Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum all hold examples of Kramer's work, but the most extensive collections can be found in Leeds at the Leeds City Art Gallery and Leeds University Art Gallery. Jacob Kramer Jacob Kramer (26 December 1892"
"of fiction as well as historic and non-fictional books, and writes for TV and motion pictures. Richard Arnold Epstein Richard Arnold Epstein (born March 5, 1927, Los Angeles), also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, is an American game theorist. He obtained his A.B. degree from UCLA in 1948. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of California Berkeley. He received his doctorate in physics, on the Born formalization of isochromatic lines, in 1961, from the University of Barcelona. He then shifted from spectroscopy to space communications, and worked for eighteen years as an electronics and communications engineer"
"Gill. The two artists were deeply interested in what they saw as the more primal sexuality of Indian and Egyptian art, as opposed to British art. Pennington refers to this period in the Epstein's work as the ""Sun Temple"" period and claims that, having been unable to follow this path with some of his works in Britain, Epstein transferred his new passion onto the Wilde tomb. The monument began as a 20-tonne block of Hopton Wood stone in Derbyshire, England, unveiled to the London press in June 1912. Epstein devised a vast winged figure, a messenger swiftly moving with vertical"
"Jennifer Cody Epstein Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of the novels ""The Painter from Shanghai"", ""The Gods of Heavenly Punishment"", and ""Wunderland"". Epstein resides in New York City with her husband and daughters. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree, a Masters in International relations and a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and English. She has written for NBC, HBO and ""The Wall Street Journal"", ""The Asian Wall Street Journal"", ""The Nation"" (Thailand), ""Self"", and ""Mademoiselle ""magazines. Epstein has also worked in Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan, where she lived for five years as a student, teacher, and"
"Buddhism in its original language and context. Finding that Eastern religions do not necessarily have greater access to truth than Western ones, he returned to the US and shifted his focus to rock music, recording and singing professionally for a year after college. Soon thereafter, he learned of the movement of Humanism and the possibility of a career as a Humanist rabbi and chaplain. In 2005, Epstein received ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an"
"David B. A. Epstein David Bernard Alper Epstein FRS (b. 1937) is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory, amongst other fields. He co-founded the University of Warwick mathematics department with Christopher Zeeman and is founding editor of the journal ""Experimental Mathematics"". In 1954, Epstein came to the UK after completing his bachelors in Mathematics in South Africa. Having received the exemption for Mathematical Tripos part I at the University of Cambridge, he completed Mathematical Tripos part II in 1955 and Mathematical Tripos part III in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. on the topic"
"St Luke’s House. In London he completed the sculptural decoration on Selfridges building on Oxford Street. He was a fierce critic of the modernist style of sculpture, and railed against works produced by Jacob Epstein. In a lecture at the Nottingham Society of Artists in 1928 he said I feel apologetic for mentioning these abnormalities and would not have done so were it not for the wide publicity accorded to them. To me, it is an affront to the intelligence to suggest that you should admire works so destitute of beauty and so fearful in character. Can things of this"
"galleries because of the erotically charged depictions of working class and middle class men, which provoked controversy. Lincoln Kirstein Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. He developed and sustained the company with his organizing ability and fundraising for more than four decades, serving as the company's general director from 1946 to 1989. According to the ""New York Times,"" he was ""an expert in many fields,"" organizing art exhibits and lecture tours"
"Abner Dean Abner Dean (18 March 1910 – 30 June 1982), born Abner Epstein in New York City, was an American cartoonist. In allegorical or surrealist situations, Dean often depicted extremes of human behavior amid grim, decaying urban settings or barren landscapes. His artwork prompted Clifton Fadiman to comment, ""His pictures are trick mirrors in which we catch sight of those absurd fragments of ourselves that we never see in the smooth glass of habit."" The nephew of sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dean graduated from Dartmouth College in 1931, and studied at the National Academy of Design. He worked as a"
"to the Haggadah"" (Jerusalem: Aryeh Editions, 1997) ""Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature."" (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997) ""The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination"" (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2011) ""Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Manuscript Illumination"" (Princeton, London: Princeton University Press, 2015) ""The Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile"" (London, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016) Marc Michael Epstein Marc Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion and Visual Culture on the Mattie M. Paschall (1899) & Norman Davis Chair at Vassar College. Epstein received his B.A. from"
"Mitch Epstein Mitchell ""Mitch"" Epstein (born 1952) is a fine-art photographer, and among the first to make significant use of color. His work has been exhibited and published extensively in the United States and Europe, and collected by numerous major museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern in London. His ten books include ""American Power"", for which he won the Prix Pictet (2011) and ""Family Business"", for which he won a Guggenheim Fellowship and"
"Louis Silverstein Louis Silverstein (October 10, 1919 – December 1, 2011) was an American artist and graphic designer who is best known for his work at ""The New York Times"". He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 1984. Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Boys High School and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a degree in fine arts. During World War II, Silverstein served in the Army Air Forces, doing graphic design. After the war, he attended the Chicago Institute of Design, where he was exposed to avant-garde design. Silverstein worked for"
"for several generations of students at The National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, including Ephraim Rubenstein, Nomi Silverman and Gregory William Frux. His book ""Harvey Dinnerstein: An Artist at Work"" was published in 1978 by Watson-Guptill. He is the brother of figurative artist Simon Dinnerstein, and the uncle of concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Harvey Dinnerstein Harvey Dinnerstein (born 1928), is a figurative artist and educator. A draftsman and painter in the realistic tradition, his work has included genre paintings, contemporary narratives, complex figurative compositions, portraits, and intimate images of his family and friends. Dinnerstein was born in"
"Marc Michael Epstein Marc Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion and Visual Culture on the Mattie M. Paschall (1899) & Norman Davis Chair at Vassar College. Epstein received his B.A. from Oberlin College and earned the M.A., M.Phil., and PhD degrees in Religious Studies at Yale University. He completed much of his graduate research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Epstein is a scholar of religion, focusing on Jewish and Christian religious culture in the Middle Ages. The objects of his study are monuments of visual and material culture. He has written on various topics regarding Jewish visual and material"
"Michael J. Epstein Michael J. Epstein (born 1976), is an American filmmaker, musician and writer. Epstein has spoken and written about the impact of local media on the arts, music service gatekeeping, effective social networking, and crowdfunding. Epstein was born in Smithtown, New York. His father is author Lawrence J. Epstein. Epstein grew up in Stony Brook, New York. and was raised Jewish. Epstein graduated from Northeastern University. He comes from a technical background, but shifted toward creative work, saying he, ""was building electronics projects and writing adventure games on my VIC-20 in gradeschool... [and] started seeing a lot of"
"practicing his art, he teaches classes on art history and appreciation. Simon Dinnerstein Simon Dinnerstein (born February 16, 1943) is an American artist best known for ""The Fulbright Triptych"". Dinnerstein was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York in 1943 to pharmacist Louis and homemaker Sarah Dinnerstein. One of two children, his older brother Harvey Dinnerstein is also an artist. Dinnerstein holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the City College of New York. He studied painting and drawing at the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Louis Grebenak, David Levine, and Richard Mayhew. He was a member of the faculty"
"as the cause of death on the death certificates of black children, an instruction that he refused to follow. His mother Polly was also active politically against the government. Polly and Ben at first wanted to emigrate to the United States, but they were denied visas, so they emigrated instead to the UK. David B. A. Epstein David Bernard Alper Epstein FRS (b. 1937) is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory, amongst other fields. He co-founded the University of Warwick mathematics department with Christopher Zeeman and is founding editor of the journal ""Experimental"
"visual arts, the Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century movement in the tradition of European naturalism. The realist paintings of Thomas Eakins are now widely celebrated. The 1913 Armory Show in New York City, an exhibition of European modernist art, shocked the public and transformed the U.S. art scene. Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others experimented with new, individualistic styles. Major artistic movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein developed largely in the United States. The tide of modernism and then postmodernism has brought"
"Lincoln Kirstein Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. He developed and sustained the company with his organizing ability and fundraising for more than four decades, serving as the company's general director from 1946 to 1989. According to the ""New York Times,"" he was ""an expert in many fields,"" organizing art exhibits and lecture tours in the same years. Kirstein was born in Rochester, New York to Jewish parents, the son of"
"reverse-shoplifted onto store shelves, Dictionaraoke, songs created with vocals by dictionary readings of words, and the Beethoven Reclamation Society, a piece in which many artists each recreated a segment of Beethoven's 9th Symphony using sound collaging. Epstein is married to filmmaker and artist Sophia Cacciola. He resides in Los Angeles. Michael J. Epstein Michael J. Epstein (born 1976), is an American filmmaker, musician and writer. Epstein has spoken and written about the impact of local media on the arts, music service gatekeeping, effective social networking, and crowdfunding. Epstein was born in Smithtown, New York. His father is author Lawrence J."
"long been an opponent and critic of Christianity, democracy, and anarchy in art and literature. I am particularly opposed to 'Abstract Art,' which I trace to Whistler's heretical doctrines of art and chiefly to his denial that the subject matters, his assimilation of the graphic arts and music, and his insistence on the superior importance of the composition and colour-harmony of a picture, over its representational content."" He was an early critic of Jacob Epstein, attacking him in ""The New Age"", to which he contributed as an art critic before the Great War. In his ""A Defence of Aristocracy"" (1915),"
"New York, where Ted Seth Jacobs instructed him on light and form. He also studied with Harvey Dinnerstein, whose ""emphatic draftsmanship"" he admired, at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He began his career during the 1980s as a figurative painter. Ten years later, he took on landscapes – a genre in which he is self-taught – eventually realizing he could treat them as he did a figure in an interior, in terms of composition, pattern and shape. In 1994 he started teaching at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. He held a one-man exhibition at the"
"Pick saw as complementary to the design of a modern office building. When completed, the twelve-storey, high cruciform building was the tallest in London and the tower dominated the skyline. The building was well received by architectural critics and won Holden the RIBA's London Architecture Medal for 1929. Two sculptures commissioned for the building were less well received, generating considerable controversy in the media. The nudity and primitive carving of by Jacob Epstein led to calls for them to be removed from the building and the board of the Underground Group considered replacing them with new sculptures by another artist."
"to restore the houses and create a bridge between the two. He approached Jacob Epstein for a Virgin and Child that would ""levitate"" above the arch and specified that it should be cast in lead which was plentiful from the bombed roofs. However, Osman had failed to inform the mother superior that the sculptor was Jewish. However, the Arts Council congratulated her on her ""innovative choice of artist"" and Epstein's work was unveiled in 1953. Cavendish Square Cavendish Square is a public square in the West End of London, very close to Oxford Circus, where the two main shopping thoroughfares"